Bag Of Holding

Jillian: Here is a picture of the stein I painted at my...

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:55:05 -0700

Jillian:

Here is a picture of the stein I painted at my cousin’s ceramic studio. Its my Dungeon Master Mug, and I use it when we play D&D. (Go ahead, feel the envy, its only natural.) ;)

Vale, Elf Dhampir, Ranger. Leader of the M.A.C. campaign. Copic...

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:45:04 -0700

Vale, Elf Dhampir, Ranger. Leader of the M.A.C. campaign.

Copic Markers and Ink

A map of the kingdoms our Acolyte Campaign is based in. Right...

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:40:00 -0700

A map of the kingdoms our Acolyte Campaign is based in. Right now we have entered the Kingdom of Bergheim (Nate’s PC Ender’s birthplace.)

(Copic Markers and Sepia Ink by Jillian Berg)

Nate: Yoho me hearties! It’s adventure upon the high seas...

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:36:06 -0700

Nate:

Yoho me hearties! It’s adventure upon the high seas for our holy heroes! Yar I will do this whole email like a pirate ya land lubber! Nay, I’m not very good at it! Now walk the plank… um, skank!? Ok, that’s enough of that. First things first, we have to find an acceptable port to continue our quest. Sounds like my life story! On our way there we are thwarted by a sinister river! It rushes! It flushes! It has a million foot drop! Our inebriated elf Varas thinks it best to jump… And that’s all he saying on the matter… If your drunk elf friend jumps off a billion foot waterfall, would you do it? The acolytes say nope! The river is bridged with our trusty friend, Mr. Ice potion. If he continues his winning ways, he might be Sir Ice Potion soon! Our heroes cross the river despite a nasty case of slippery log… And I’m not talking about our trousers! We pull into port and find three ships willing to give us passage and one ship willing to give us passage to our most intimate pleasures! I guess Varas’ most intimate pleasure is stealing clipboards… glad one of us got our desires fulfilled >=(. After the debacle of Whore Ship 2011 our heroes have no choice but to take the middle ship. I’m sure everything will be fine and nothing bad will OH GOD ITS A KRAKEN WE’RE ALL GUNNA DIE! By drowning most likely =). The kraken wins the battle but loses the war as the acolytes and their new friend escape by row boat. But as things typically go, out of the kraken infested death trap, into the swampy, boggy, slaady marsh! The slaads prove no match for our mighty heroes, but they do however impregnate most of the team with lil demons before they are beaten. Aw, whose a cute lil demon baby? Who’s such a cute lil demon spawn? You are! You are! Ender, no stranger to strange diseases knows not to panic, OH GOD! GET IT OUT OF ME! FIND ME A MAGIC SEXY LADY AND GET IT OUT OF ME! So yeah… that’s about it. Next week, maybe we will catch that pesky caravan! Maybe we will get to talk to our fancy new friend some. If your lucky you might get ice cream, doubt it though..

Nate: Independence Day! A perfect holiday for the Acolytes,...

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:25:46 -0700

Nate:

Independence Day! A perfect holiday for the Acolytes, defenders of freedom, champions of justice! What would be a good holiday for the MAC characters? Halloween? Pearl Harbor Day? Arbor Day? Well, we will have to cross and/or burn that bridge when we get to it! For now, enjoy the freedom, fireworks and funny cartoon

Jillian:

As DM I demand a reference to Ora (no matter how small) in your recaps! It’s sad to read the recaps when they don’t involve you…… Whahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!! L

Jeremy:

Just have a pane at the end of every recap that shows her sitting on a throne bored to death!

Jillian:

Like Conan the Barbarian!

Nate:

How about sadly gazing out a window while she washes dishes and/or laundry?

Jeremy:

Buahahaha!!!!

Jillian: Okay, so I am running a bit behind on the M.A.C....

Sun, 05 Jun 2011 17:32:00 -0700

Jillian:

Okay, so I am running a bit behind on the M.A.C. recaps, so sue me! lol but Nate did one for the last session, so I just did a drawing to go along with that adventure. (Featuring me of course, and Vayle’s new outfit…. with pasties!) ;) lol

(Vayle doesn’t like Bullywugs, they are all slimy and taste like mud.)

Nate: Mwahahahaha! Best idea ever! Instead of a recap for mac,...

Sun, 05 Jun 2011 17:23:52 -0700

Nate:

Mwahahahaha! Best idea ever! Instead of a recap for mac, since that is Jillian’s job, I’m going to do teasers! What horrendous fates await our villains? Some gargantuan monstrosity in the arena? Games of skill? Fire? Any of the panes could be true… Or none of them! That’s why its a teaser, you never know! You just have to show up to find out! 9:30pm at Jeremy’s house! Be there! OR GET NOTHING!

Nate: Here you thought you wouldn’t see a terribly drawn recap...

Sun, 05 Jun 2011 17:20:16 -0700

Nate:

Here you thought you wouldn’t see a terribly drawn recap since the recap master was DM. WELL SHAME ON YOU! After all, who better to tease and make fun of the DM than the DM? I know the subject material well! And I was left alone at the desk and bored last night… I’ll leave the actual recap to Jillian, just wanted to have some fun with paint! Enjoy!

So a couple or weeks ago, Johnny had to be out of town and so...

Sun, 05 Jun 2011 17:17:00 -0700

So a couple or weeks ago, Johnny had to be out of town and so would not be able to be with us for Dungeons & Dragons night….or would he? The computer age scoffs at thousand mile separations! Behold, D&D via Web Cam! (left hand skype image is the game mat, the right side is us (Nate bending over his DM screen.)

M.A.C. Recap by Jillian Confusing cooperation benefits those...

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 18:20:00 -0700

M.A.C. Recap by Jillian

Confusing cooperation benefits those who are unknown to the source. Work it out on your own whilst being hindered or helped by your comrades at the determent of the group.

All this and some goblins happened as the MAC characters find themselves in four separate chambers. Unbeknownst to them, their actions within their own room affected those in a room apart!

What crazy mind games are you playing DM?!

Treadmills and water wheels, magic PIN pads and pitch black gropieness. Can anyone say “lab rats?”

Vayle, Kaze, Cohon and Halkad make it out of their weird cells and into the 8^th (or 28^th?) sub-basement of the temple. (Maybe it we are in a sunken office building and not a church?)

Once again the leadership of Vayle proves to be unfailing and wholly beneficial to the group (isn’t she due for a raise?) Yet more goblins are beat up, and even more obstacles are overcome.

Suddenly, solid stone reveals more than we bargained for as a new member of our group was disgorged from the dank water stained walls.

Enter “Sith” (insert StarWars joke here) the Shardmind Psion, Johnny from the movies’ newest character!

The group looks on in wonder as Sith fells his foes just as ruthlessly as they do. Soon the newest goblin horde is defeated, Vayle’s bloody body is revived, and we are on to the final leg of our journey!

The huge demon waits for us as he desiccates Halkad’s soul with his sharp teeth. The group prepares themselves for an epic battle and everyone is surprised when the demon snatches Halkad’s final soul away which causes his body to erupt into dust. Whoops there goes the bounty. Fortunately for Halkad, the demon realizes his error in consuming a kalashtar soul and quickly vomits up our mad friend…into the body of a captive cleric.

The fight is on!

In a vicious display of action point hoarding, the group teaches the now alarmed demon about true evil. In an effort to stem the violence against his person, the demon strikes a deal with the group: If we bring him innocent souls to feed his appetite, he shall help us recover our recently lost valuables.

The terms are acceptable, and the deal is sealed. However, nefarious plans and hidden agenda’s go hand and hand with demon pacts. Can our MAC characters get themselves out of this bargain intact? Or will the price of failure be their souls?

(Drawing by Jillian Berg : Johnny=Shadar Kai, Nate=Drow,...

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 20:05:08 -0700

(Drawing by Jillian Berg : Johnny=Shadar Kai, Nate=Drow, Justin=Minotaur, Jillian=Dhampir/Elf, and Jeremy=Kalashtar)

Ah yes, it felt good to stretch our proverbial legs and dive right back into fun and adventure, or in our case, terror inducing and wanton destruction. It’s been a long, cold winter break. We may have become a bit rusty along the way, but we gained much over our four month hiatus, most notably a new member to our group! Justin!!!

Our spring/summer D&D session was kicked off with a M.A.C. reboot. Johnny Formerly of the Movies will be reprising his role as a guest member. And Justin will take his place as a steady member of our group.

M.A.C (Morally Ambiguous Characters) now consists of:

Nate: Dungeon Master & Kaze the Drow Assassin

Jillian: Vayle the Dhampir/Elf Ranger

Jeremy: Halkad the Kalashtar Cleric

Justin: Cohon the Minotaur Fighter

And

Johnny the yet to be determined, maybe his old character, maybe his new character, who knows.

The first epically evil adventure begins with our favorite heroine and master exsanguineator Vayle carting the mad murderer and all around bad guy Halkad back to the authorities in hopes of claiming a monetary reward. Vayle it seems is in need of some cash and bounty hunting is right up her alley. Unfortunately, before the sexy damphir can claim her gold, the shadowy Kaze appears to behead her bounty. This startling turn of events turns yet again when Vayle and Halkad team up in order to fend off the dark drow. However, before much blood is spilled (to everyone’s regret) four horsemen appear and break up the party. (But not the famous four horsemen, just four highly trained and well armed militia guys on horses.)

Out numbered, Vayle, Halkad and Kaze flee for their lives.

During their hasty retreat, the three find themselves in the ruin of a once grand temple. Halkad, the guy with the most arcana skills promptly releases an ancient demon who eats the less important but still necessary of Halkad’s two souls. Uh Oh!

Into the labyrinth the party continues for now their fleeing has become questing. They are now in a race to recover Halkad’s extra soul and with it any hope of bounty or reward.

Hobgoblins were felled, and a Minotaur was found. Riddles were unraveled, and Mirrors were aligned.

The unlucky group was forced to part with their most valuable possessions and no amount of whining could change that.

In the end the weary evil doers were left at the bottom a keep with a few shiny new weapons but still one soul down, and time is running out!!!!

Jillian:

Tue, 14 Dec 2010 00:03:54 -0800

I just tried out the Character Builder on D&D Insider! It’s fairly intuitive, I had a few err… bumps, but in the end I was pretty impressed. All the character races and classes at your fingertips, helpful suggestions and one stop shopping for equipment, but best of all: No more filling out character sheets by hand! :)

Jillian and Johnny, back in 2009 when Jeremy was the Dungeon...

Mon, 06 Dec 2010 23:46:05 -0800

Jillian and Johnny, back in 2009 when Jeremy was the Dungeon Master and before Nate began playing with us.

Nate: Who is that shady, handsome robed, drow over there!? Is...

Mon, 06 Dec 2010 23:06:42 -0800

Nate:

Who is that shady, handsome robed, drow over there!? Is that the one and only Rild? Master of destruction, debauchery, deviance and desertion…? Where has this striker been all my life? Chaos bolts, acid splashes and pillars of flame, this guy is a walking techno concert! It’s good to have him back in the crew! Although we might have to change our name if we keep him around… Hard to be The Acolytes when you have a shady drow running around blasting things with evil shadowy powers! I’m just happy we got to play this week! After skipping 4 weeks it was like a big release of DnD glory all over my face… We even had Papa Pete’s pizza, I wonder if we wear some t-shirts with their business name on them if they would sponsor our DnD night… “This 20 minute Jeremy the rule Nazi break is brought to you by Papa Pete’s, fueling nerds since 1974!” I don’t think I could write this recap without mentioning the most nerdy thing I have ever done in my entire life. We encountered some flying creatures in our adventure and were trying to figure out the distance from our ranged attackers to the flying creatures. That is when it happened, we used the Pythagorean theory to triangulate the distance! Pretty nerdy, we are already playing dnd and a discussion breaks out about obscure math principles like 3,4,5 triangles… I might never be allowed at another sporting event for the rest of my life =S. We had another first as well, WE STAYED UP PAST MIDNIGHT! But thanks to Jeremy and Jill and their ADD. we only ended up doing 2 encounters and 2 skill checks. Gee, what’s next, a whole day marathon of DnD where we gain one level? You two need to focus and get your priorities straight! No more whining about unimportant things like your futures… GET TO THOSE WHEN THEY COME! DND TIME IS NOW, FUTURE TIME IS LATER! Anyways… welcome back Johnny!

Jillian:

Yay Johnny is back! Hopefully to stay!

Nate: Been awhile since we played some dnd. Thought I would show...

Mon, 06 Dec 2010 23:02:29 -0800

Nate:

Been awhile since we played some dnd. Thought I would show what the DnD characters were up to while we had real life stuff going on. Surprisingly similar… Anyways, I’m sad I won’t be playing my dark character until the summer. Sometimes I need to relieve a little stress (mostly caused by you two…) and running around in the shadows murdering my enemies is a good way to do that! I’m pretty sure we aren’t playing next week either, that makes it 4 weeks in a row 0_0. What did Jeremy say? One turn is approximately 5 seconds? It takes about a minute for us to do a turn in real life, so that means for every second that passes in the dnd world 12 seconds passes in ours. Its boring at work right now so I did the math on 4 weeks. 4 weeks = 28 days28 days = 672 hours672 hours = 40320 minutes40320 minutes = 2419200 secondsif 12 seconds pass in the real world for every dnd world second2419200 / 12 = 201600 dnd seconds201600 dnd seconds = 3360 dnd minutes3360 dnd minutes = 56 dnd hours56 dnd hours = 2.3 dnd days. So really, our characters sat around doing nothing for about 2.3 days. Which isn’t too bad, almost like we gave them the weekend off =). I like how Jeremy is all like, we got high level guys, I wanna play em and make it to level 11 blah blah blah etc. And then we don’t play for 4 weeks! I need to get a cheat bot to train my character while I’m away =S.Jillian:All that math makes you seem like a huge geek… just saying…

Nate: Hey! We didn’t play DnD… There’s a big surprise! Now we...

Mon, 06 Dec 2010 22:58:37 -0800

Nate:

Hey! We didn’t play DnD… There’s a big surprise! Now we don’t get to play for another two weeks… =(. I fully expect you guys to have some sweet-awesome campaigns written by the next time we play! Here’s how the recap goes for this week… Hey guys! What’s up!? Ready to play? OoOoOoOo TV! Yawn… snore… Well sweet, thanks for the pizza… THAT I BOUGHT! Anyways, enough violent ranting. I switched two Sundays for two Wednesdays with Racheline so I could go to my Dad’s last two football games this year… so we are totally boned for DnD for a couple weeks, at least this way we spare my heart the ever disappointing, “Sorry, X came up and I am preoccupied til Y, so I offer you Z in apology for my absence…” Where X is some sort of lame ass activity, Y is forever and Z is nothing! Man these recaps sure are short… WHEN THERES NOTHING TO WRITE ABOUT! Have a nice day =D!

Jeremy:

Lol that’s awesome… I want some sequined greaves…

Jillian:

I want a sequined chest plate, I’ll dazzle the bad guys into submission!

Nate: Yeah Yeah! I know! We were fighting spiders… Well sorry...

Mon, 06 Dec 2010 22:52:00 -0800

Nate:

Yeah Yeah! I know! We were fighting spiders… Well sorry whiners! Drawing spiders is beyond my capabilities! Drawing Goaty almost killed me! Plus spiders can’t talk and that was a key component of the comedy of that strip… And I know we didn’t have a name for him so I chose Goaty! Creative, I know! I can’t believe we haven’t utilized Goaty until now! In one fight he did more damage than Ora and Ender did combined all night! He makes a pretty good mascot for our crew too! He isn’t normally a ferocious fighter; he’s a calm non-aggressive peaceful animal most of the time. But when evil threatens the world he leaps into action to defend the innocent! Just like the Acolytes! Now that we have 4 members, one of whom is summoned, we need an ultimate move that the 4 of us combine to do! We will always wait until we are nearly defeated then summon Goaty, and then get defeated some more, then pull out this desperation move to win just in the nick of time. Even though we could have used the ability to start the fight if we wanted to… For instance, I could imbue Varas with holy thunder, Ora could cast a rune on Goaty that changes him into some crazy armor or maybe a giant robot. Then Varas and Goaty become one and attack with the power we imbued them with to win! Anyways, I’m rambling on tangents. This week we fought a landshark! It was most likely the biggest and most ferocious beast we have ever defeated! It was no sweat! But Jill had anticipated that and made our next fight our toughest yet! We fought a small army of large spiders! It pushed us to the edge! Daily abilities weren’t enough! We needed… GOATY THE WONDER GOAT! Finally using the idol, and the funny poem =), Varas summoned his mighty goat! Goaty did some major work and helped us rescue some major babes! For that he will always have a soft spot in my heart! We enter the enemy’s stronghold next week! Finally after weeks of whores, goats, spiders and gnomes we have arrived at our first goal! Let’s hope there’s an epic battle and even epicer loot awaiting us next week!

Jeremy:

… When did Varas get like 3.5 feet tall?

Nate:

I know, I messed that up lol, pretend hes on his knees…

Jillian:

Goaty looks like a coffe table with a face…

Nate: Well as promised, a bashing for Jeremy for causing us to...

Mon, 06 Dec 2010 22:49:21 -0800

Nate:

Well as promised, a bashing for Jeremy for causing us to miss DnD night. I swear you two! Get your priorities straight! And by straight I mean in line with mine! Well sounds like more acolytes next week. Get ready for ticks, stds and ugly prostitutes…

Jillian: We never contracted any STDs…

(Nate) Oh noes! Look out! It’s the no DnD this week recap! Just...

Mon, 20 Sep 2010 17:10:18 -0700

(Nate)

Oh noes! Look out! It’s the no DnD this week recap! Just when you thought it was safe to check your e-mail again… POW surprise recap! So we didn’t play this week because our vampire was watching the finale of true blood. Wonder why she decided to play a vampire… My next character, a Halfling football player… What’s the point of watching vampires on tv when you can be one on paper? Anyways, back to the Acolytes next week. Sigh, being a good guy is sooooo boring sometimes.

(Jillian) So, we started our M.A.C campaign (Morally Ambiguous...

Mon, 20 Sep 2010 13:11:00 -0700

(Jillian)

So, we started our M.A.C campaign (Morally Ambiguous Characters) and Jeremy, being the lover of mystery had my character Vayle and Nate’s character Kaze (short for something Japanese) instructed to investigate a strange assurance in the wilderness. The only thing was that Vayle and Kaze did not know that we were both on the same mission.

So, here we have a comic of how Vayle met Kaze. The punch line is that Kaze’s “shroud of darkness” power is a burst and covers three squares. When we were playing and he invoked his shroud, I laughed and pointed out that hiding in a square of darkness in the middle of the day was not the best way to hide from me.